• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.56-61
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• 2012

Magnesium alloy sheet which is commercially available in the market presently is AZ31B, a Mg-Al-Zn three elements alloy. AZ31B is used by being classified into AZ31B-H24 and AZ31B-O depending on temper designation. In this study, AZ31B-H24 and AZ31B-O alloy sheets with 1.25mm thickness were butt-welded using CW Nd:YAG laser. And the effect of materials on mechanical properties was investigated by tensile and hardness tests. As a result of this study, regardless of materials, the butt-welded joint did not show a significant difference in tensile strength and hardness values. However, compared with the basemetal, the AZ31B-O showed more outstanding mechanical properties than AZ31B-H24, and that is because H24 material lost the effect of work hardening during welding.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.50-54
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• 1992

Maskless depositon of copper onto n-doped and p-doped Si in an aqueous copper sulfate solution is investigated. On p-doped Si substrates, microscopic $(~10\mu\textrm{m}$) copper spots are deposited by illuminating continuous wave $Ar^+$ laser beam of wavelength 514.5 nm. Copper deposition on n-doped Si substrates is also achieved by shinning second harmonic pulses $(pulse width~25 nsec, \lambda=530 nm)$ of a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The observed deposition is attributed to the electric field resulting from the Galvanic potential of a semiconductor-electrolyte junction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Laser Processing Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.0-0
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• 1998

-Part I- As market needs become more various, the production of smaller quantities of a wider variety of products becomes increasingly important. In addition, in order to meet demands for more efficient production, long-term unmanned factory operation is prevailing at a remarkable pace. Within this context, laser machines are gaining increasing popularity for use in applications such as cutting and welding metallic and ceramic materials. FANUC supplies four models of $CO_2$ laser oscillators with laser power ranging from 1.5㎾ to 6㎾ on an OEM basis to machine tool builders. However, FANUC has been requested to produce laser oscillators that allow more compact and lower-cost laser machines to be built. To meet such demands, FANUC has developed six models of Slab type YAG laser oscillators with output power ranging from 150W to 2㎾. These oscillators are designed mainly fur cutting and welding sheet metals. The oscillator has an exceptionally superior laser beam quality compared to conventional YAG laser oscillators, thus providing significantly improved machining capability. In addition, the laser beam of the oscillator can be efficiently transmitted through quartz optical fibers, enabling laser machines to be simplified and made more compact. This paper introduces the features of FANUC’s developed Slab type YAG laser oscillators and their applications. - Part II - All-solid-state lasers employing laser diodes (LD) as a source of pumping solid-state laser feature high efficiency, compactness, and high reliability. Thus, they are expected to provide a new generation of processing tools in various fields, especially in automobile and aircraft industries where great hopes are being placed on laser welding technology for steel plates and aluminum materials for which a significant growth in demand is expected. Also, in power plants, it is hoped that reliability and safety will be improved by using the laser welding technology. As in the above, the advent of high-power all-solid-state lasers may not only bring a great technological innovation to existing industry, but also create new industry. This is the background for this project, which has set its sights on the development of high-power, all-solid-state lasers with an average output of over 10㎾, an oscillation efficiency of over 20%, and a laser head volume of below 0.05㎥. FANUC Ltd. is responsible for the research and development of slab type lasers, and TOSHIBA Corp. far rod type lasers. By pumping slab type Nd: YAG crystal and by using quasi-continuous wave (QCW) type LD stacks, FANUC has already obtained an average output power of 1.7㎾, an optical conversion efficiency of 42%, and an electro-optical conversion efficiency of 16%. These conversion efficiencies are the best results the world has ever seen in the field of high-power all-solid-state lasers. TOSHIBA Corp. has also obtained an output power of 1.2㎾, an optical conversion efficiency of 30％, and an electro-optical conversion efficiency of 12%, by pumping the rod type Nd: YAG crystal by continuous wave (CW) type LD stacks. The laser power achieved by TOSHIBA Corp. is also a new world record in the field of rod type all-solid-state lasers. This report provides details of the above results and some information on future development plans.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.391-395
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• 1999

We present the measurement of the diffraction efficiency and response time of the photorefractive grating recorded in $LiNbO_3$ photorefractive crystal doped with 4%-mole MgO. Two laser sources were used in the experiments; frequency-doubled Q-switched Nd:YAG laser ($\lambda$=532 nm) and cw Ar-ion laser ($\lambda$=514.5 nm). The same optical geometry was also used in both experiments in order to maintain the experimental consistency. Using the two-wave mixing scheme in both experiments we measured the maximum diffraction efficiency in the range of beam intensity of 1.6~100 W/ $\textrm{cm}^2$, and the response times for both cases of recording and erasing. Two sets of results obtained from the experiments are compared and analyzed.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.193-196
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• 2003

We have developed a laser welding monitoring system to monitor laser welding process conditions such as sample feed rate, laser focal position, and laser power. A 2 ㎾ Nd:YAG CW laser beam has been applied to the welding of a stainless steel plate (SUS306) to investigate the welding monitoring. Theradiation signal from the weld pool was guided back through the focusing optics and the laser delivery fiber, and measured by a photo detector. By changing the focus of the laser beam along the z-direction, the penetration depth of the welding material has been measured. That shows the penetration depth depends on the frequency fluctuations of the plume signals which can be used in welding quality control.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.94-96
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• 1989

Explosive evaporative removal process of biological tissue by absorption of a CW laser has been simulated by using gelatin and a multimode Nd:YAG laser. Because the point of maximun temperature of laser-irradiated gelatin exists below the surface due to surface cooling, evaporation at the boiling temperature is made explosively from below the surface. The important parameters of this process are the conduction loss to laser power absorption (defined as the conduction-to-laser power parameter, Nk), the convection heat transfer at the surface to conduction loss (defined as Bi), dimensionless extinction coefficient (defined as Br.), and dimensionless irradiation time (defined as Fo). Dependence of Fo on Nk and Bi has been observed by experiment, and the results have been compared with the numerical results obtained by solving a 2-dimensional conduction equation. Fo and explosion depth (from the surface to the point of maximun temperature) are increased when Nk and Bi are increased.To find out the minimum laser power for explosive evaporative removal process, steady state analysis has been also made. The limit of Nk to induce evaporative removal, which is proportional to the inverse of the laser power, has been obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.154-154
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• 2000

FED(Field emission display)의 FEAs(Field emitter arrays)에 형성되어 있는 micro-tip 은 tip 표면의 오염이나 진공내부의 잔류가스에 대단히 민감하다. 특히, emitter 물질의 일함수 및 겉모양 같은 기하학적 요소에 민감한 전계방출 소자의 특성상 tip 선단이 oxidation 될 경우 일함수가 증가하여 전자방출에 필요한 구동전압이 증가하고 전자 방출의 불균일성이 커지는 문제점이 발생한다. 이에 고진공의 동작 환경 및 FEAs 제작과정이나 공기의 노출에 발생하는 tip 표면의 오염물질 제거가 요구된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 40$\times$40mm2 FEAs에 laser power, scan speed을 달리하며 laser(cw Nd-YAG, 1064nm)을 조사하였다. laser cleaning 효과를 보기 위해 laser irradiation 전, 후에 진공도 5$\times$10-7torr irradiation 후에 emitter tip의 뚜렷한 기하학적 모양의 변화를 볼 수는 없었지만, I-V 특성이 향상 되는 것을 볼 수 있었다.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.100
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• pp.26-29
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• 2005

레이저 가공기 세계시장은 2010년에 약 70억 달러 이상의 규모가 예상되고 고출력 CW 고체 레이저 시장은 2010년까지 매년 약 30%의 성장이, 펄스레이저 시스템 및 레이저마킹기 시장는 연간 10% 이상의 성장을 예상하고 있다. 반면, 세계 레이저 발진기의 시장에서 CO2 레이저의 경우 시장의 규모가 작아져서 2004년에 약 4억 달러의 규모가 2010년에는 약 2.3억 달러 수준으로 하향할 것으로 예상되고 있다. 고체 레이저에서 특기할 사항은 2010년에 Lamp Pumped CW Nd;YAG 레이저의 경우 약 74백만 달러로 규모가 축소됨에 비해 고출력 DPSSL(Diode Pumped Solid State laser) 시장규모는 약 17억 달러로 급성장하며 레이저 마킹 및 미세 정밀 가공용 저출력 DPSSL의 시장 규모가 약 13억 달러로 고속 성장할 것으로 예측이 된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.34D no.11
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• pp.20-24
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• 1997

We have successfully fabricated high power (~20W) laser diode array, which are useful for pumping Nd:YAG lasers. The laser diode aray has 20 100.mu.m-wide cahnnels of which space was adjusted to 350.mu.m to improve thermal characteristics. And channel width is 100.mu.m. For an uncoated LD array, the output power of 15.66W has been obtained at 41A under quasi-CW operation, which results in about 0.42W/A slope efficiency. After aR(5%) and HR (95%) coatings on both facets, the output power was improved up to 21.18W at 40A under the same operation as above and the slope efficiency was 0.795W/A. On the other hand, by using a near field measurement system consisting of objective lens, eyepiece, CCD camera and image processing board, the typical near field patten of 1*20 LD array was observed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.339-344
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• 2009

Recently, Laser surface treatment technologies have been used to improve wear charactenitics and fatigue resistance of metal molding. When the laser beam is irradiated on the surface and laser speed is appropriate, the laser focal position is rapidly heated and the thermal energy of surface penetrates the material after irradiation, finally imbuing it with a new mechanical characteristic by the process of self-quenching. This research estimates the material characteristic after efficient and functional surface treatment using HPDL, which is more efficient than the existing CW Nd:YAG laser heat source. To estimate this, microstructural changes and hardness characteristics of three parts (the surface treatment part, heat affect zone, and parental material) are observed with the change of laser beam speed and surface temperature. Moreover, the depth of the hardened area is observed with the change of the laser beam speed and temperature. From the results of the experiments, it has been shown that the maximum hardness is approximately 788Hv when the heat treatment temperature and the travel speed are $1150^{\circ}$ and 2 mm/sec, respectively.